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For Christmas, you get the following chuckle:

We’re making chocolate chocolate chip cookies, because the holidays demand that you assault your arterial system not just during the main course but through dessert and into the apres-repas.

To be honest, I like to maintain an open culinary perspective and occasionally, especially in the season of yule, I have been known to coyly flirt with the odd coronary - a wooden spoon of uncooked batter is ALWAYS worth it.

The cooking process this evening begins with a solemn listening of:

As I posted this, my wife informed me from downstairs that we were going to put two sticks of butter into the recipe.

I have to go now.

Find below extremely simple guide for determining the appropriate time to use the term “Oh Snap”, something I’ve always struggled with. I hope it can help you the way it helped me.

Heck yeah, and in an election year to boot.

The Presidents of the United States of America, my second favorite band from Seattle, are back to rock our socks off - this time with an album called “These Are The Good Times People”. It’s their fifth album.

They’re supporting it with a US tour in March (and one in April, for their Eurofans)

Tour Dates

End goal for some, scary statistic for others. Put me in the latter:

“The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows.”

Full article here

Warning: if you believe in unicorns (I’m talkin to you, Nick), you will be shocked. Everyone else will save millions:

Insane Car Battery Hack! - The funniest videos are a click away

Two weeks without a post means that I was either finally attacked by the gang of squirrels that I know is out to get me when I go running, or that I was avalanched by a ridiculous amount stuff to do offline.

Luckily (or unluckily, depending on perspective), the reason is the latter. The bags under my eyes will vouch for me.

There was an thick and even spatter (there’s an image) of weekday work, weekEND work, wine parties, company retreats, teaching stuff, meeting people, hiding from people, website launches, workday lunches, and general Murphy’s Law-induced mayhem to deal with.

I think it’s starting to slow down, but maybe it’s the same kind of thing that makes going 60 miles an hour seem like a slow jaunt after you’ve been driving 85 for a few hours. I dunno, we’ll see.

I’m just glad the holidays are almost here - they represent the world’s reset button, and I always like it when both me and the world around me take a deep breath at the same time.

Plus, there’s egg nog, and it’s very hard to argue with that.